As should be the case, science is coming forward faster, in terms of resolving longitudinal study-issues, such as would be a perfectly reasonable match for inclusion in the WADA / UCI / French Ministry of Sport (& etc) pilot program for 'Athlete's Passports', as was featured in the WADA Press Symposium, offered in Lausanne, at the IOC Museum, late last February.
Hot of the internet press, is this test-busting item from the Endocrine Society, which has all the earmarks of being a late, perhaps too late, determining factor for testing such as has destroyed the world's image of Cyclist Floyd Landis.
The article is "Doping Test in Sports Confounded by Common Genetic Trait", and it destroys the myth that current Testosterone testing is exact. It apparently has also determined a genetically derived process to help define narrowly the types of individuals we all our, based on genetic traces whose alternate levels are consistent within the groups defined.
The tests for testosterone doping used in professional and amateur sports may routinely be confounded by a common genetic variation, according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Unless this variation is accounted for, current testing methods could implicate innocent athletes and allow cheaters to go undetected.
WADAwatch can merely state "... more to come on this lively subject." Hopefully, an emergency meeting of WADA's accredited laboratories (which could of course be an email conference beginning, umm, yesterday?) is ready to probe this scientific study and act towards stabilizing its Tech Doc TD2004EAAS, which may have just been rendered... obsolete?
As parties in the Landis case may submit documents to CAS up to April 18th, there's time to probe the validity of these studies, and determine their judicial worth.
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